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Adrian Betschart

@cinema-one.bsky.social

Former software developer, owner of a single-seat home theater. Interested in movies, TV Series (especially science fiction), A/V equipment, Plex, TrueNAS, and retro computing.

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Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

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Schluss mit dem gefährlichen Microsoft-Daten-Larifari Die Gefahr der totalen Microsoft-Abhängigkeit ist real. Unsere digitale Souveränität steht auf dem Spiel, und wir dürfen nicht warten, bis es zu spät ist. Die fast vollständige Abhängigkeit der Schwei...

Der (Schweizer) Bund muss sich von der Microsoft-Abhängigkeit lösen. Petition: act.campax.org/petitions/sc...

08.11.2025 19:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

02.03.2025 16:55 — 👍 54157    🔁 37065    💬 2031    📌 3070
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You first.

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Musk's Email
#ElonMusk #Trump

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“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

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Live scenes from the Oval Office.

11.02.2025 23:51 — 👍 104    🔁 16    💬 4    📌 1
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Ekligste Dschungelprüfung aller Zeiten: Kandidaten müssen eine Stunde lang Dschungelcamp gucken Dungay (dpo) - So schlimm traf es bisher noch keine Teilnehmergruppe: In der wohl härtesten Ekelprüfung aller Zeiten mussten alle Kandidaten des RTL-D

Ekligste Dschungelprüfung aller Zeiten: Kandidaten müssen eine Stunde lang Dschungelcamp gucken

04.02.2025 11:57 — 👍 384    🔁 25    💬 4    📌 2

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Since CDC websites and datasets are being taken down by the Administration…

The ENTIRE archive of ALL CDC datasets uploaded BEFORE January 28th, 2025 can be found here: archive.org/details/2025...

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Friden EC 130 Desktop Calculator

Friden EC 130 Desktop Calculator

Hewlett Packard “Desk” Computer

Hewlett Packard “Desk” Computer

Enigma cipher machine

Enigma cipher machine

Apple Lisa 2/5

Apple Lisa 2/5

Regards from VCF 2025 Zurich. Nice event, lots of stuff to see…
@vcf-ch.bsky.social

18.01.2025 13:31 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Nice! The one that I had for my MSX (Yamaha CX5M) looked almost the same.

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That’s what I just did this morning.

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Displayed in New York in 2006: a Nintendo-branded microcomputer with a boxy joypad beneath it. It kind of looks like the MSX but with that Nintendo look and feel.

Displayed in New York in 2006: a Nintendo-branded microcomputer with a boxy joypad beneath it. It kind of looks like the MSX but with that Nintendo look and feel.

A grey and red Nintendo-ey looking cassette deck that would have played cassette-based games like many of its microcomputer peers

A grey and red Nintendo-ey looking cassette deck that would have played cassette-based games like many of its microcomputer peers

The joystick and the light gun/wand periph. Think of an 80s wiimote and you've got the idea. 

 All would have been infra-red wireless - even the cassette deck.

The joystick and the light gun/wand periph. Think of an 80s wiimote and you've got the idea. All would have been infra-red wireless - even the cassette deck.

🕹️ Bytes of Gaming History ⌛

Before the NES there was the AVS: Advanced Video System. Had this initial prototype, displayed only once at the Consumer Electronics Show in 1984, entered production, Nintendo of America would have entered not the console market but the home computer one.

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